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How to Get Organized When You Are a Busy Mom!

Motherhood is one tough, all-encompassing, daily battle through the laundry, lunch boxes, carpools, and endless school papers kind of gig. When your to-do list is long, and your hours feel short- you need some routines and structure in your life to help you to manage your time! Here's exactly how to get organized when you are a busy Mom!Don't we all think that we could become the Super Mom of our Dreams- if we could just figure out how to get organized?! This is the Ultimate Guide on everything you need to know to organize your life, your family, and your home!

Don't we all think that we could become the Super Mom of our Dreams- if we could just get organized?! Well get your cape ready, because you CAN do this! This is the Ultimate Guide on everything you need to know to organize your life, your family, and your home!

So Why Do You Want to be an Organized Mom Anyway?

If there's one thing I've learned from parenting 6 kids- it's that when I feel in control of my schedule, when I know where I need to be and at what time, when my home is picked up and uncluttered and I can find whatever it is that I am looking for, and when I have a game plan of what I need to accomplish each day and can check a few things off of my list- I feel less stressed.

I am more patient with my kids. I don't get that panicky feeling that tells me I am forgetting something (or someone) somewhere!

Life just runs more smoothly. And I am a happier person.

And I bet you feel the same way.

(And I love this story from Good Housekeeping about how another Mom feel her life changed when she got organized!)

So why is it so darn hard to get organized?

How many times have you vowed to get organized? Every back to school season? Every New Year's Day? Every Monday morning?

Yet somehow- life gets in the way! And we feel that we just don't have the time to get organized- because as a busy Mom- there is always something or someone that demands our immediate attention.

We see Marie Kondo's method of decluttering your entire home at once by pulling everything we own out of our closets or cupboards- and think- THERE IS JUST NO WAY!

And we wonder- where do we even begin? 

By becoming a “Mom with a plan”.

The First Step in Mom Organization: Decide Where to Begin

Saying you want to “get organized” is kind of a broad commitment. And it's just not realistic to tackle a whole-life organizing makeover all at once! So where do you want to begin?

There are likely some areas of your life that are working well, and some that could use a little polishing.

Take a moment to consider:

  • Do you and your family use routines in the morning to make the process of getting out the door smooth? Do you rely on evening routines to get your family ready for the next day?
  • Do you feel on top of your schedule- know where and when you have appointments and commitments?
  • Aside from raising these small humans, do you struggle with understanding your life's purpose? And how to make any progress towards your own personal goals?
  • Do you feel buried in paper- mail, bills, fliers, permission slips, invitations, sports schedules, magazines, and more?

Think about your answers to the questions above and decide what area of your busy life you'd like to tackle first!

The Organized Mom Method of Getting Control Over Your Time!

If you are ready to get started- well then this is IT! These posts will walk you through a total overhaul of your in-home systems and routines that can help you to quickly become more organized. But sometimes we fail to start- because we just don't know where to begin. This post is a great place to get you started!

Set Your Priorities:

If you really want to get organized with your time, then you want to make sure that the things you spend your time on are actually leading you to accomplish what you most want in life. And that means you need to set some goals!

But before you jump into setting goals- take some time to reflect on where you've been- what's been working for you, what were your recent accomplishments, and what makes you feel happy?

The next step is to set some very specific goals and make a plan for achieving each of them (using the SMART method of goal setting which I explain in this post):

Once you've laid out your intentions, you'll need to break down your longer-term goals into weekly actionable steps and have a way to check in with yourself to make sure that you are staying on track!

Use a Good Family Calendar

The fastest way to get control over your life is to get all of your appointments and commitments down onto a family calendar. Ideally- one that you can share with your significant other and even your kids (when they're ready).

Create a Command Center

The idea behind having a functional command center is that you have one place where you put EVERYTHING you need- your important papers, your calendar, your to-do list, your grocery list, your incoming mail, and all of that paper that the kids bring home from school. It can serve as the family communication center and keeps everyone in sync!

Create Family Routines & Habits

Family routines for yourself and for your kids that outline the steps of what you need to do and the order in which you need to do them to get through a particular part of the day make our lives SO much easier!

Embrace Menu Planning

Menu planning is truly one of the best tools you can use in your quest to organize your life! When you know what you plan to serve for dinner each night of the coming week, you can make sure that you buy what you need during your weekly trip to the grocery store. A menu plan allows you to know if you need to take something out of the freezer ahead of time to defrost….. and the best part of all- is that the 5:00 pm hour seems a heck of a lot calmer because you are just executing a prepared plan… vs trying to think of one!

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How to Get Organized In Your Home

You know the old saying “a place for everything and everything in its place”? Well, there's a reason why that expression is still around- because order in our home leads to order and a sense of peace in our lives. When we are surrounded by clutter and “too much stuff” it becomes much more challenging to find whatever it is we are looking for. We end up buying duplicates (or more!) of things we already have because we can't find it. It drains our wallets and drains our sanity too!

But keeping a neat and clean home does not need to take up a ton of your time to get in shape and to maintain. It's about tackling projects in small “bite-sized” pieces to get your home the way you want it, and then creating habits that allow you to keep it that way!

Declutter and Clean

Kitchen

Closets

Bathroom

Bedrooms

Laundry Room/Mud Room

Home Office

Garage

Basement

Car

Moving a Teen Into College?

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How to Get Organized With Your Family

Managing your family brings its own set of organizing challenges! How do you keep on top of all of their medical records, the “treasures” they bring home from school, their sports equipment? And how in the world do you organize the thousands of photos and videos that you take? Here are some answers:

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How to Get Organized With Your Finances

In addition to running the household many of us are responsible for managing the family’s finances- paying the bills, planning and sticking to the household budget, and even managing and tracking the family’s financial investments. But all of that paperwork, filing, and tracking can be overwhelming and can create its own mountain of paper clutter. Here's how to organize your finances, and track your money!

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I hope that you found this to be a great resource for you as you work to become the more organized Mom that you want to be and leads you to happier and more fulfilled life!

Comments

  1. Thara says

    Heya.

    This is a nice post in order to start with. For example we decided to have a family movie night at home. I got my first child to assist me with the popcorn and to pick a movie in question to watch as well. My second one had to take care of the plants and feed Milo our family dog. The other two little ones had to tidy up after their dinner and help me around the house. That was it really in terms of chores. Good luck. It is nice to meet you.

    It depends. Once a week one child must come out to do the weekly food shopping with me. I have a list of things to buy. They have to find one thing on that list for me. Other choices of chores are up to them. My eldest child can choose to make their own dinner or order it. They only get £10 to spend however and the food must not be unhealthy. We don’t eat chips in this house very often. The littlest one is learning how to make his own bed and to pick up his own toys at the end of the day. He is also learning how to count in pairs and to use a home laundry room. We go to do food shopping and he helps me out with a simple cooking lesson once a week. All four children do. Only then can they use the internet without me checking up on them.

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  2. Ohioren Aigbokhaevbo says

    Nice article…I use the ‘creating family routines and habits’ method in my home. Every one is involved in the cleaning and organization of the home. They all know what is expected of them.

    This way am not overwhelmed with chores.

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  3. Eric Walker says

    Wow great resource on getting organized. I find it pretty hard to keep my work desk organized. I try cleaning and organizing the desk every 2 days but I tend to give up within a week! And then I hate to clean all the mess.

    I liked “10 Ideas of How to Organize a Home Office”, found a few actionable ideas, so fingers crossed.

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  4. Barbi K. says

    You probably will think this is funny, just today i was wondering if you used the instant pot to feed your big family and then in today’s post there was my answer. I too am the mom of a big family, 5 sons. So that’s why I was curious. Have Fun with your new kitchen helper, I’m new to the world of Instant Pot myself.

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